“The IPSO Alliance, the leading organization defining the “Internet of Things,” today announced the successful interoperability of two critical new elements of the IPv6 protocol for small, resource-constrained embedded devices known as “Smart Objects.” Tested at an event in Anaheim, Calif., the interoperability of RPL, the emerging, IETF-specified, IPv6 routing protocol for low power and lossy networks, and of 6LoWPAN-HC, a header compression format for highly efficient IPv6 packet delivery over IEEE® 802.15.4 low-power wireless personal area networks (WPAN), are key to connecting smart objects such as meters, sensors or control devices, and smart appliances over the Internet.”